Everything suggests that during this quarter Intel launchá Comet Lake-S processors which are still based on 14nm. These new processors recover the HyperThreading in all its ranges and change the socket. More or less we already knew that the LGA1200 socket would be present in the Comet Lake-S and Rocket Lake-S, but now more details (and confirmation) have been leaked
A few weeks ago there was already talk about the Alder Lake-S and the LGA1700 socket, but now it has been confirmed. So the new Intel socket will last for 2 generations of processors and possibly with backward compatibility. We know about backward compatibility because motherboards support PCIe Gen4, while Comet Lake-S does not. Intel stuff that nobody understands.
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Intel to switch sockets again in Alder Lake
Alder Lake-S processors in theory should by the end of 2021 based on 10nm lithography (most likely not until 2022). They would be the only processors in the company to be based on this lithograph, if we listen to the endless rumors. These new processors will introduce the LGA1700 socket and of course, it will not be compatible with the LGA1200 socket.
The LGA1200 socket has raised quite a controversy since physically it is the same as the LGA1151 of current processors. When we talk about physically, we mean the same dimensions, although it adds a handful of pins. Apparently this modification is due to adding 10 cores in the same DIE, but we cannot guarantee it.
Now data has been leaked from a Taiwanese company that offers Intel VRTT tools. A sheet with processor names and different associated sockets has been leaked. In the description we can see LGA1700-ADL-S Interposser for the Alder Lake-S.
On the LGA1700 socket, it will have dimensions of 45mmx37.5mm, while the LGA1200 socket has dimensions of 37.5 × 37.5mm. We see that the two sockets have different dimensions, so the possibility of making 'fixes' does not seem viable.
Note that the LGA1700 socket would not only exist by jumping to 10nm, but also by elements that it would integrate. According to rumors it would support PCIe 5.0 and there are rumors about DDR5. They may not end up supporting the DDR5 standard and stick with DDR4, but who knows.
Source: wccftech
